Bye Bye Love

[XLR]

Bye Bye Love

Live track of some put-yer-feet-up-on-the-porch-railing-old-fashioned-down-home-music-making. Just a room mike in the corner and two singers w/ac gtrs. I added a bass gtr and a nylon string lead part. I'm the high voice but wish I was the other.

[Dogman]

Sounds fun man....wish I was closer to hear this one live....

[Llarion]

Jeez, you're making me all nostalgic.. Nice! Bass is a bit big...

[true-eurt]

The Everly Brothers' tune !! You and your collaborator, have taken a laid back play on the song. I close my eyes...


.....and the picture that comes to mind, is the sun just setting...casting it's orange-yellow glow in the eastern sky, as the lightning bugs start flashing their firey bottoms....and the kids run about the yard barefoot...some with small coffee cans, some with small glass jars.... trying to catch the greatly prized ring maker....their excited calls of "I got one!" echoing through the air.

Womenfolk are on the porch sitting in wicker chairs with comfy cushions, glasses of iced tea in their hands quietly trading gossip of the past week, fanning themselves against the remnants of the stifling heat of the day....the porch swing occupied by a couple of young lovebirds, holding hands and giggling about silly things whispered to one another, are under the watchful eye of Grandma.

A couple of the menfolk are playing a game of Checkers on the card table around on the side porch, puffing on pipes filled with sweet smelling tobacco, and some of the other menfolk are tossing horseshoes....the clanking of each ringer, seems to be an odd placed percussion sound, amidst the churning rhythm of the ice cream maker, as several adults and some of the eager children take their turns, in the making of the long anticipated creamy sweet delight....Cantankerous auntie Gertrude just may find a glowing decoration in hers....

[guitarmonkus]

enjoyed this. Thanks.

[ido1957]

Sonds pretty nice on my PC speakers. Great playing and singing overall. One of my favorites. It picked up everything really well, with one mike in the corner. There no noise from the gain having to be way up there to pick up a semi-distant source. What kind of mike/pre setup are you using there?
Cool.....

[Greg_L]

Sounds great. Good job guys.

[chrisharris]

Cool.

[60's guy]

Really enjoyed your approach and tempo on this, Tim.

I remember listening to Bye Bye Love on the car radio when it first hit the airwaves!

[Flangerhans]

A pleasure to hear...love the nylon string, just right for the tempo.

[XLR]

Dogman, Llarion, True, guitarmonkus, ido1957, Greg, Chris, 60s, Flangerhans – Glad you liked it. Thanks for listening.

Llarion – new mix on the way with less boom! Full song length too in the new mix.

True – I can see the fireflies.

Ido1957 – the mike was a KEL HM1 into a Tascam US122 about 4 ft away from us on the original vocal/gtr. Some hiss, but it’s masked by the busy mix. Same mike for everything else, but a little closer. There’s a second ac gtr part I added too, on the left. I semi-stereoized the vocal/gtr original track with Soniformer’s frequency oriented panning so it’s more HF hot on the right, LF hot on the left.

[Supercreep]

I agree the bass guitar is a little too big and puffy. Good singing, Tim.

[rayc]

This reading brings the similarlties, few as they were, between the Everly's & Buddy H into sharper focus.
Good to hear harmonies not so fraternal.
Is there a fade in or is it my media player & the streamer?
Nice take.

[TexRoadkill]

Sounds nice. My only complaint would be that the low end seems a little boomy.

[XLR]

Supercreep, rayC, TexRoadkill - thanks for the comments. I'm working on the bass in the new mix. Recording and mixing elec bass is new to me and it's been a struggle I have to say. Ray, yep there's a too-slow fade in and that'll be gone in the new mix also.

[Llarion]

Originally Posted by Timothy Lawler

Supercreep, rayC, TexRoadkill - thanks for the comments. I'm working on the bass in the new mix. Recording and mixing elec bass is new to me and it's been a struggle I have to say. Ray, yep there's a too-slow fade in and that'll be gone in the new mix also.

The biggest challenge is getting definition without boominess. try rolling off everything <31Hz, roll 125 off a little, and pull 4Khz to 8Khz up, see if that helps.

[Bulls Hit]

On headphones it seems a little skewed to the right - one of the accoustics is louder than the other. Nice harmonies

[travelin travis]

good stuff tim.

[bigbubba]

Pretty great. Would like to hear the vox a little louder. Playing is super as usual.

[metalhead28]

Nice job Tim.
Reminds me of the times I was actually sitting in the corner and listening to my Father in law and his friends playing.

[scrubs]

Very fun. Sounds very vinyl. I agree that the bass could be tamed and the vocals might come up a smidge. Although I love the playing, I kept expecting a mandolin to pop in there.